Total allocation count?

I'm looking for a way to find the total number of objects allocated  
since the VM started (or since the number was reset).  As far as I  
can tell, the stock VMs don't include this.  Has anyone written a  
patch for Interpreter that enables this?  I seem to recall hearing  
about VMs with extra profiling information built in, but couldn't  
find it.

Also, is there a way to temporarily turn GC off?

Thanks,
Josh

> Also, is there a way to temporarily turn GC off?

Yup. Set allocationsBetweenGCs to some huge value.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

turn GC off, you should look at my instrumented GC VM work and the  
change set that lets you look at the GC numbers on each GC.

To turn GC off you could make new space very large, and set the  
object allocation limit very high and the new space gc boundaries  
high, then it will allocate objects and do
no GC work until you run out of memory.

You can get signalled on each IGC so you could collect the object  
allocation count at that time.

On 23-Feb-06, at 12:40 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:

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